If the stated goal of this blatantly racist policy is to ‘deter crime,’ hasn’t the NYPD failed miserably and confirmed that continuing ‘stop & frisk’ is nothing but a waste of tax dollars and an insult to people of color?

It criminalizes our youth, creates further distrust between the community and police, and doesn’t do a thing to keep us safer. It used to be that we feared driving while Black; well in New York and around the nation, we now fear simply walking down the street while Black or Latino.

The injustice of ‘stop & frisk’ policies and their effect on racial minorities isn’t something that the two of us observe from a distance; it’s a reality that we cope with on a very personal level.